Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Soviet industry has dramatically recovered from World War II's losses, and surpassed its prewar level. These are the latest available production figures in millions...
Soviet agriculture, unlike Soviet industry, has not recovered to its prewar level, even though growing weather has been good since the 1946 drought. Soviet propaganda plugs the theme that Russia is a land of oceanic wheatfields and of modern collective farms. Actually, in relation to its population, Russia is a poor country agriculturally. With a third more people than the U.S., Russia has slightly less arable land than the U.S., produces only half as much grain. Since 1895, Russia has had a drought once every five years on the average, reducing crops as much...
...control their people even under the most extreme rigors of war. One example is that of Russia itself, which fought on in World War II even after the most valuable portion of the country had been lost, after 5,000,000 army casualties had been suffered, and after the level of life had dropped to a point which the West would consider unbearable...
...tight political control of its own people; 2) a position within reach of the industrial centers of Western Europe, which are not beyond the logistical tether of the Red army; 3) possession of atomic bombs which might be able to reduce U.S. and other Western production to the level of the U.S.S.R...
...opinion may be unpopular," wrote Columnist-Senator Margaret Chase Smith, "but I am very tired of seeing car after car with slain deer strapped to the fenders and hoods ... I don't see how a hunter can level his gun against the sad eyes of a deer and shoot to kill. What sport is there in this...